FINGERS OF A LOVING HAND 溫柔的指掌
(poems/stories in Chinese/English 中英詩文)

8/02/2006

Downpour

As the downpour washes the mountainsinto a paintingWe follow the rhythm of raininto millennia of pathsthat bring us together.Tonight, Maria sits by the windowto rub her eyes and make sureit is just the rainthat blurs her vision.

Back at home, she never cries,We are just carried away by the rain:Different time or colorsnow look similar.The mountains, the rivers, the memories,and many interpretationsof a painting, are risingfrom far to near.

We listen to different versions of rain:It looks like the vineyard in Sicilywhere hundreds of folks came to a readingby an American author. They may not understandEnglish, but the rain......He sinks behind the screen of rain, and she rises:It's like the rain of bullets on the wallsin North East China during the Japanese warwhich filled pages of...........The rain beats the windows harder:Like the tears of the Russian Jew,after hundreds of years, stillexile with rain..................

What seems strange in other countriesnow becomes familiar.The rain has no brain to discriminatethe boundaries of nationalitiesbut fall into everyone's eyeswithout announcingthe arrival or departureof feelings.

From the roots transplantedit may or may not grow:in different climatebeing neglected,over or under fertilized,drought or flood.All because of the lack of planningof rain.

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About Me

Stephanie, S.H. Chin is a multicultural, Multilingual journalist/writer/poet who has traveled and lived in 20 countries. Ms. Chin has worked as editor in chief, editor, journalist, research writer for medias such as NBC, CNBC, NBC-Asia, TVB, CNN, Washington Post, Asian Sources, Singtao (NYC), TVB. She is a member of the HK Journalist Association, Asian American Journalist Association, and the HK Writers Circle. Before moving to Hong Kong she was coordinator of the Poetry Center at the State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook and Co-Director of Worldwide Writers Services in N.Y. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including Westhampton Writers Festival, Utah U., SUNY URECA, SUNYSB, SUNY Albany, Long Island Writers Festival Awards, etc. She was a visiting writer in collaboration with the Fulbright Commission to China (e.g. Sichuan University, Beijing Foreign Language U., Beijing Normal U., Shenyang U., Changsa U, Shenzhen U., Guangzhou Foreign Language U., etc.) Her poetry book is “Finger of a Loving Hand”. She translates her own poems. She studied at HKU & SUNY at Stony Brook (Special thank to Cornelius Eady who inspired me) contact: stephaniechin88@gmail.com